Thursday 8 October 2015

Tyger Tyger

I wonder why Blake's poem is Tyger Tyger and not Tiger Tiger? I'm writing this on National Poetry Day when questions like that tend to spring to mind.

Anyway, here's my Tyger, amid a forest of tropical leaves. The stamp is a very old unmounted one from my collection, stamped and embossed on black and coloured with Promarkers. Everything else on the card uses snippets - some orange paper  left over from a Halloween card, stamped with pawprints and edged with peel offs, a snippet of patterned, corrugated kraft card and a snippet of DCWV textured "woven" paper, all on a kraft base card.
The philodendron leaves are punched from scraps of green and the veins added with a gold gel pen.




I'm sharing this with House of Cards - Colour and/or Texture
Make My Monday - Cats, big or small
OLLCB - Kraft
Pixies Snippets Playground - week 197 

10 comments:

Shawna said...

Easy tiger!! My dad always used to say that when I would rough house. Tigers are just the most beautiful animals and the way you depicted this tiger is no exception. I think the best thing about this card is the way you framed it with those wonderful leaves. Thank you so much for joining us at MMM..
hugs,
Shawna DT

Barb said...

He's a very handsome tiger. I love the colours, there's loads of texture and the leaves look great Jane. Barbxx

Cazro said...

A super tiger, I love all of the textures you have added to your creation. Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday Caz DT

Rika said...

Great card for the challenge!

Di said...

Wow Jane, this is a really magnificent tiger indeed! And the leaves surrounding him are really very 'jungley' too.Super card!

Hugs

Di xx

Donna said...

Such an adorable card, glad you joined us at House of Cards! Donna T. DT

Mynn xx said...

What a fabulous card! I LOVE the bold colors and images--and the different textures look AMAZING together! Thank you for joining us at House of Cards! HUGS! :) Mynn xx

cotnob said...

This is a fabulous card Jane, such a beautiful image
Thank you for joining us at Ooh La La Creations.
Pauline
x

Donna Nuce said...

Gorgeous Tiger! Amazing how it fits with our color challenge! Thanks you so much for joining us at House of Cards challenge blog.

Toni said...

don't you love using up snippets? I'm so glad you had these to go with your fab tiger image. They are such amazing animals, aren't they?

Toni
HOC DT